public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags design & theory

01 December 2006

Digital Web Magazine

by 33 others
see Nov. 27 06 and earlier, "The Rise of Flash Video" by Tom Green; many articles of interest to both designers and theorists in this ejournal

Black Film Research Online

good discussion of Black film in Chicago; also a large section on how to do Black film research on the Internet

Art, Design, and Visual Thinking

by 3 others
a basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin

Gene Pool

by 2 others
a science game: "a virtual Darwinian aquarium .. you initiate a primordial soup, and .. check up on what Virtual Mother Nature is up to - about every 15 min. (or every few days)"

27 November 2006

eipcp.net

transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design

24 November 2006

23 November 2006

22 November 2006

DIGITALSOULS.COM - new media art | philosophy | culture

"one of the longest continuously running online galleries and e-zines dedicated to new media art, digital culture and philosophy; contributions by international artists and writers including Brian Eno, Yoko Ono, John Berger, Sean Cubitt, Susan Sontag..."

20 November 2006

ArtLex Art Dictionary

by 3 others
search, arranged in alphabetical order, large number of terms

Design Observer: writings about design & culture

by 1 other
very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers

19 November 2006

Cabinet Magazine Online -

a quarterly journal of art, design, culture; partly playful, some art, some scholarly essays; good mix of specific reviews and overviews

18 November 2006

Dr Daniel Chandler's UWA Home Page

extensive website of visual semiotician, with course outlines, online papers, and an interesting links page

THE PECULIARITIES OF CYBERSPACE by Albert Benschop

complete book online, covers many areas often not dealt with, such as porn sites and dating sites; one insight that may draw you to read more: "the times that count in cyberspace are highly accelerated and strongly individualized."

16 November 2006

Seeing Is Believing?

another page of visual illusions with explanations

illusions.html

a page of links to visual illusions and their explanations; kids love these